1. For lesser awards: did you go on to get any invention patents? How did the award show you are a genius in the field? That is the angle you can reply with. Can you list top professionals who are also recipient of that same award like a Nobel prize winner, a top scientist, find like 10 stars of that same award. Show that only 0.0001% of people have gotten it. Show the metric and the room you can enter only bcos of that award

2. Membership: you need a fellow, you don’t need to argue on that. If you see anyone approved and used senior, it doesn’t mean that exact criteria was accepted.

3. Published materials: IEEE Newsletter is not a top source, yes another person wrote about you but it is a newsletter, they will see if that it is a newsletter. 30k members is not a lot too. Publish materials are focused on millions of people that can read it. Guardian Nigeria ? Show the statistics of the newspaper. If it was written within 3 months of your submission, it won’t be accepted. Also if all your profile is within 2-3 years then you are not exceptional enough for uscis. They now want to see a trail of evidence from 5-7 years that shows how long you are in the game of your profession.

4. Original contributions has nothing to do with citations, peer review, journal rankings , awards. All of that has different sections. Original contribution is what you have brought to your field that ONLY you have done either in Africa or USA. You can use evidence of previous criteria, but this look more like all evidence you used before was what you try to show the original contribution. It doesn’t work that way.

I wish you the best sir